Welcome! Posted here are new works - often before they are placed on my website - with helpful information about the new, as well as my circuitry sculpture in general. It may answer some frequently asked questions. PREVIOUS YEAR POSTINGS MAY HAVE WORKS STILL AVAILABLE, AND EARLIER 2011-2012 POSTINGS WILL HAVE INFO ON THE CIRCUITRY WORK IN GENERAL. Please direct any questions through my website contact page www.theokamecke.com. The website will reveal the availability of each work.

Friday, March 3, 2017

As promised some time ago, here are several of the new works which are currentlyavailable but may not be placed on my website until the interiors of all are ready to be photographed. (Other wallworks and chests are also in various stages of construction).

The FRONDSwallwork drew its title (also its
working title) from the very large circuits that border the top &
bottom.These circuits originated
about 40 years ago, long before miniaturization began to render them
invisible.Among the ancestors of
technology.

I don’t try to do this on purpose, but somehow when the design of a chest comes together, it often reminds me of a certain
culture past or present --Egyptian or Gothic or Chinese or Art Nouveau or African primitive…

This one felt strongly suggestive
of mid-20th century expressionist paintings.

Everything needs a name long before a title is decided:
folders for notes & plans, trays with selected circuitry, photo files,
etc.My working title for this
piece was “Buttheads” (which just popped in my head as soon as those top
circuits were placed together), but I didn’t want to refer to a TV cartoon from
some years ago.And it was hard
not to notice that one of the circuits was male and the other female. So in a moment of whimsy I picked the classical
lovers DAPHNIS & CHLOE ;Daphnis is on the right, with the penis
sticking up from the back of his neck.Never mind that the circuitry isn’t a bit gentle and romantic. It’s a machine, after all.